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HerbalGamer, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

If you have nothing else to play and want a simple open world game set in and around Hogwarts, it’s perfectly servicable as long as you pirate it. Don’t expect to be blown away by it though.

BowtiesAreCool,

I assumed that after literally nobody or any media outlets have talked about it since release. Telltale sign of bang on average game. Probably great for potter fans and boring for those who don’t care or haven’t seen the films/read the books.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I would - and I hate my saying this - rather recommend Avatar then. Yeah it’s a Ubisoft game. I know. Yeah, it needs a beefier machine to actually look really pretty.

But oh my fucking hell is it pretty when cranked up. And it helps the generic open world gameplay a lot to be this awesome looking. Fun to just wander around and take in the scenery, even when you leave the jungle areas and go to the plains and see the wind-swept grass and all.

Murvel, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

Oh no, but what about the boycott…

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

When has a boycott ever worked? For the most part people don’t have principals unless their very livelihoods are directly threatened.

rab,
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

Never, it is just free advertising

muse,
@muse@kbin.social avatar

What about it? None of us are surprised that people chose a childhood memory over respect for trans people as human beings.

ahornsirup,
@ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz avatar

What a ridiculous take. First of, outside of certain parts of the internet most people aren’t even aware of the issues surrounding Rowling, secondly you can very much acknowledge that she’s a terrible excuse for a human being while still enjoying a game she had nothing to do with (yes, she gets royalties, but she has the kind of fuck you money that multiplies by merely existing anyway).

ada,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Your profile has “Nazis can fuck off”, but you’re here calling out people who have issues with Rowling, a bigot who stans Nazis like Kellie-Jay Keen

ahornsirup, (edited )
@ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m not. I’m calling out people who call me a bigot for not living up to their standards on ethical consumption. Personally I avoid Nestlé and their billion subsidiaries wherever humanly possible, but I am not calling everyone who doesn’t pro-slavery. That’s my issue, not the warranted labelling of Rowling as a bigoted piece of shit.

simple,

It’s genuinely amazing to me how some people are obsessed with the idea that buying a videogame based on the works of an author that wasn’t even involved in making the project makes you transphobic.

Would it shock you that 99% of corporate officials are bad people? I guess we should stop buying anything ever because some percentage of money can go to people I don’t like.

muse,
@muse@kbin.social avatar

She's literally said that people buying her shit proves she's right.

I'm sorry people have some more morals with their money and have trouble giving it to people who have made it their entire focus to shit on them and be called rapists and groomers by their former childhood heroes.

simple, (edited )

Your morals are fine, what isn’t fine is that most of the people boycotting the game are harassing people that buy it.

She’s literally said that people buying her shit proves she’s right.

So what? Why is everyone giving some dumbass writer that hasn’t been relevant in 10 years so much attention? Who cares what she says? Tons of people say terrible, stupid things on the internet. Sorry I’m not joining your crusade to call everyone that wants to enjoy a video game a bigot.

rab, (edited )
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

My girlfriend literally was bullied by coworkers for playing the game. And she is the absolute sweetest. It is completely ridiculous

If I cared, I could easily go into the above dude’s post history to find an example of his money going towards some bigot to prove he’s a hypocrite. It doesn’t matter what you buy, your money is supporting bigotry, because at the top of the human social hierarchy are bigots. Welcome to the world. Picking on fellow peasants for something out of their hands is wrong.

I don’t even have to dig come to think of it, dude is typing to us on a device assembled by slaves or maybe even child slaves.

Lileath,

They may not be bigots themselves but they happily give their money to a person well known for being bigoted that also actively tries to make the world a worse place for trans people. It is like buying a burzum album; you don’t have to be a nazi to do it but the nazi still profits.

rab,
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

Why care about what a writer has to say about gender politics? I don’t. I don’t even know what she said specifically because it means nothing.

FooBarrington,

Because she’s actively using her money to make trans people’s lives worse, and she’s influencing people by spreading her hateful views. It absolutely doesn’t mean nothing - she’s literally lobbying with the money you gave her!

rab,
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

Ok, but I mentioned this above, it’s literally impossible to live in society and not have your money funneling into a billionaire’s pockets who’s lobbying against your best interest.

Just in the realm of video games, probably buying the majority of games results in your money going to an objectively bad cause. Most rich people are scum.

FooBarrington,

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Sure, some of your money will probably always end up with bad people, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to prevent that. There are different kinds of bad, and those who try to hurt minorities have to be broadly pushed back against by broader society, or it will have negative effects on those who often already face undue hardships.

rab,
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

Of course, my issue is the people bullying others for their choices when they themselves could be doing better. I can’t stand hypocrites.

I bet all the people in this thread calling people bigots eat meat for every meal which to me is straight deplorable behaviour. But I’m not here to judge, I have my own faults too.

rab,
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

If you stand by what you preach you should basically stop buying anything. No matter what, a billionaire is getting your money, and they are all pieces of shit I promise.

morphballganon,

Tons of people worked on the game who aren’t bigots. Artists, programmers, designers etc. Buying the game supports them, too.

Also, someone decided to make the owner of the Three Broomsticks trans.

xkforce, (edited )

Ah yes the “I cant be racist, I have a black friend” defense. JKR is still a TERF and she still financially benefits from hogwarts legacy and no amount of tokenism is going to change that.

De_Narm, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

It’s multi-platform, uses one of the biggest IPs of an entire generation and seems to do it quite well too. Everything else would have been more surprising to me.

Kusimulkku,

I’m shocked the online outrage from gamingcirlclejerk didn’t work

ChicoSuave,

It’s like the sub made for taking the piss out of gaming criticism and critique did what it was supposed to do.

Kusimulkku,

Not really, they were often really serious about it which made it all the more ridiculous. Sometimes it’s a fun circlejerk sub, sometimes it’s presenting their slacktivism almost as being some gaming vanguard and fighting a war against the game.

It was pretty funny.

SuperSaiyanSwag,

I used to love that sub, but these days they are only focused on the outrage culture. Nothing inherently wrong with that, I like to laugh at people who take their video game waifu too seriously. I initially joined that sub because it seemed like the best place to have level-headed conversations about overhyped games, like the Witcher 3. Everywhere else seems to love that game as if it’s the second coming of Jesus, but if you find some places that didn’t like the game, they swing a bit too hard on the opposite site, so you can’t have a conversation with them either. I found plenty of people in that sub who loved that game, but knew where the shortcomings were.

rab, (edited ) do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

The people who tried cancelling the game are the reason it sold so well and that is hilarious. Everyone was talking about it, any advertising is good advertising

PS I pirated my copy

xkforce,

Brain dead contrarians that have no thoughts and opinions of their own beyond “how do I piss people off?”

rab, (edited )
@rab@lemmy.ca avatar

The boycotters or the people who played the game?

The downvote button doesn’t answer my question, I actually have no idea what you meant…

thorbot, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

Very curious. I played for about 10-15 hours and was just bored, but I’ve never been a huge potter head. Glad people like it though

BudgieMania, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

If you are WB, I can't see how you compare the performance of this game vs the performance of Suicide Squad (which had similar development time) and not rethink your approach to future licensed titles

MrGerrit, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

Completed both 100% and they’re such great fun games.

Hogwarts was awesome to walk through the wizardry world. Battling wizards, poachers, spiders, etc. Finding all the secrets and going through the story. Finished the game in a week, I just couldn’t put the controller down.

Vespair, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

Embarrassing.

BiggestBulb, do games w Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 delisted from Steam | VGC
@BiggestBulb@kbin.run avatar

This sort of stuff is why piracy is important.

equidamoid,

and/or getting your games from places like gog.com

cyberpunk007,

I had >500 titles on steam and 50 on gog like 5 or 6 years ago. Now I have around 400 on gog.

Now my only problem is an efficient way to auto sync it all to some backup storage.

malaknight, do games w Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 delisted from Steam | VGC

I think this article is rather misleading, or the headline is specifically. Before this article was written there was DMC 3 Special Edition, DMC4, DMC 4 Special Edition, and DMC HD Collection.

DMC 3 Special Edition and DMC 4 are the two being removed. DMC 3 SE was a terrible port that barely runs on just about any machine, and DMC 4 is just the inferior version of DMC 4 SE.

DMC 3 is still available in the DMC HD Colleciton, and is actually playable. So Both games are still available in their actually playable form.

Sidyctism, do games w Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 delisted from Steam | VGC

Dmc 3 being delisted isnt an issue, that buggy mess of a port should have never been sold for money in the first place.

anamethatisnt, (edited )

Eh, I remember enjoying dmc3. The gigapede fight was really fun.

samus12345, do games w Indie gem Celeste gets a free N64-inspired 3D platformer to celebrate its sixth anniversary
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

*Indie hidden gem

AnonTwo,

Is it hidden? I remember it being pretty popular when it came out.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

It is not. Calling it a hidden gem is a meme due to how popular it is.

Shotgun_Alice, do games w Indie gem Celeste gets a free N64-inspired 3D platformer to celebrate its sixth anniversary

I played this yesterday it’s so much fun.

moosetwin, do games w Indie gem Celeste gets a free N64-inspired 3D platformer to celebrate its sixth anniversary
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I hope they don’t get another Portal 64 incident.

simple,

Portal 64 was due to valve, there’s nothing wrong with having 64 in the title.

Aatube,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

It wasn't due to valve, it was due to using Nintendo libraries

kratoz29, do games w Indie gem Celeste gets a free N64-inspired 3D platformer to celebrate its sixth anniversary
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

This looks… Odd, I’d still play it though.

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